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INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505

Office of General Counsel

25 November 2003

Mr. Daniel Marcus, General Counsel National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States Third Floor 2100 K Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20427 Re:

(U) Response to Item No. 4 of DCI Document Request No. 10

Dear Mr. Marcus: (U) This responds to DCI Document Request No. 10 (DR #10), dated 4 August 2003, issued by The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the "Commission"). By agreement, this response is part of a "rolling" production in which the Central Intelligence Agency is providing documents to the Commission as soon as they are identified as responsive. (U) The first page of each enclosed document has been sequentially bates-stamped. In this, and all future document productions, the first digit of the bates-stamp identifies the specific DCI Document Request to which the document responds and the remaining digits refer to the document number. (U) Enclosed please find document Nos. 1000296 through 1000301, responsive to Item No. 4 of DR#10. Although, the Agency has already produced documents on this item, this material serves to follow-up on some of the questions posed by the Commission Staff during our 13 November 2003 status meeting.

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Mr. Daniel Marcus, General Counsel National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States Third Floor 2100 K Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20427 Re:

(U) Documents Responsive to Item No. 5 of DCI Document Request No. 8

Dear Mr. Marcus: (U) This is our latest response to Item No. 5 of DCI Document. Request No. 8 (DR #8),- dated 3 July 2003, issued by The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the "Commission"). In your memorandum of 26 August 2003, you identify Item No. 5 as among the "most important categories of documents requested by the Commission." (U) The first page of each document covered by this production has been sequentially bates-stamped. In this, and all future document productions, the first two digits of the bates-stamp identifies the specific DCI Document Request to which the document responds and the remaining digits refer to the document number. (U) This production consists of documents that were originally included in the group of documents that are responsive to Item No. 5 of DR #8 and were produced to the Commission under cover of my 17 October 2003 letter to you. The enclosed documents were removed from the 17 October production Downgrade to UNCLASSIFIED when Separated from attachments

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and replaced with placeholders notifying the Commission of their removal, because the documents required further internal review and coordination. Our coordination of the document is now complete and the documents (bates-stamped as Nos. 0800389A, 0800390A, 0800390B, 0800392A, 0800392B, 0800399A) may now be substituted for the placeholders inserted in the compilation of documents produced on 17 October 2003. The documents covered by this letter bear numbers that end in "A" or "B", indicating that the document should be inserted into the document previously produced that bears the identical number. (For example, 0800389A should be placed into document No. 0800389.) (U) If you or any questions regarding the should be inserted into 17 October 2003, please

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(U) All of these documents are, by prior agreement, being retained by the Agency and are available for your inspection at CIA headquarters. (U) Please note the following regarding this production of documents. (U) First, some of these documents pertain to categories of documents and types of information to which, by prior agreement, only certain members of the Commission and its staff have access. All documents subject to limited access are held in| 9/11 closed by statute |at CIA headquarters. These documents have been removed from the documents placed in the Commission's reading room at CIA and replaced with placeholders indicating that the document is sub-iect to limited access and located

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(U) Second, please note that the inclusion of talking points as part of the Agency's response to Item No. 5 of DR #8 does not mean that such talking points were actually used by the DCI in meeting with the National Security Advisor. In addition, the listing of topics in the talking points does not establish that the DCI and the National Security Advisor actually

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the absence of talking points does not establish that the the officials, but only that no the topic.

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Folder: 0007 Document: 18 Dan Marcus Files Pages: 2 ACCESS RESTRICTED

The item identified below has been withdrawn from this file: Folder Title: [Dept. of] State [2 of 2] Document Date: 11-24-2003 Document Type: Letter Special Media: From: CIA To: Daniel Marcus Subject:

CIA documents

In the review of this file this item was removed because access to it is restricted. Restrictions on records in the National Archives are stated in general and specific record group restriction statements which are available for examination.

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